13.11.08

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week

I'm wearing a specially-designed, long-sleeved green t-shirt today as part of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week here at Lehigh University. It's honestly not something that I think about enough, and in the midst of a very major decision that my family is making this week, it is giving me pause to realize just how much we have.

Here are some facts on the back of our t-shirts:

100,000,000,000pounds of edible food are thrown away in the US per year3,500,000US residents experience homelessness in a given year

4 comments:

The real tragedy is how man die without Christ each day. I fervently want to help those who live but I want to make sure they will live eternally. I want the pure and undefiled gospel which helps the poor, breaks the chains, gives generously, and preaches Christ

That is very true, and not one that we should take lightly. But it is important to remember that even Christ feed the hungry without any expectation or requirement that they follow Him. He called them by loving them where their needs were, and we should do the same.